Didn’t he say foreign aid would be dependent on those countires making real reforms?

Oh. I see.

I got an education working on disaster relief after the tsunami in Indonesia. It doesn’t take long to totally wreck an economy with aid. Your average grocer (rice-seller, what have you) can’t survive very long with no sales, and if you hand out even a few week’s worth of food for everone in the community…boom. Plus the food that’s handed out ends up creating an instant black market which undersells the regular outlets as well. Not good.

I would guess the only real solution is to stop the humanitarian aid and switch immediately to solely offering development funds.

Does Brit Hume know about this story?

Hmmmm. Looks like the op-ed staff @ the nytimes has been hijack by conservative thought.

Somebody ought to alert the libs here in America of this obvious C & E.

PS: Your exit fun fact is typical of predominantly muslim countries toward their own. Re: indonesian tsunami aid.

because so much aid has been redirected to humanitarian purposes, development aid has dried up.

It’s a shame. What used to be the most educated, up-to-date segment of the Arab world has devolved to the level of most of the rest of the Arab world. Fortunately, it doesn’t take much development money to generate an economy that consists of men sitting around all day drinking strong coffee and bitching about how they’ve been screwed by the Joos. Another shining example of the dead end created by a self-understanding based on victimhood.

We give ‘em cash ’cause we don’t want ‘em to starve and they use that cash to buy American flags … and lighter fluid … and matches.

Bastids.